On this day in 1972, the Games of the XX Olympiad began in Munich and continued until 10 September. At 4:30am on the morning of 5 September, a group of Palestinian terrorists broke into the Olympic Village and entered two apartments being used by the Israeli team at 31 Connollystraße.

The memorial plaque on the wall reads: “The team of the State of Israel lived in this building during the XX Olympiad Summer Games from 21 VIII to 5 IX 1972. On 5 September, David Berger, Ze’ev Friedman, Yossef Gutfreund, Eliezer Halfin, Yossef Romano, Amitzur Shapira, Kehat Shorr, Mark Slavin, Andre Spitzer, Yakov Springer, Moshe Weinberger, died a violent death. Honour to their memory.”